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The salons of early modern France were social and intellectual gatherings that played an integral role in the cultural development of the country. The salons were seen by contemporary writers as a cultural hub for the upper middle class and aristocracy, responsible for the dissemination of good manners and sociability.
Indeed, according to Jolanta T. Pekacz, the fact women dominated history of the salons meant that study of the salons was often left to amateurs, while men concentrated on 'more important' (and masculine) areas of the Enlightenment. [27] Portrait of Mme Geoffrin, salonnière, by Marianne Loir (National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC)
The salon culture was introduced to Imperial Russia during the Westernization Francophile culture of the Russian aristocracy in the 18th century. During the 19th century, several famous salon functioned hosted by the nobility in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, among the most famed being the literary salon of Zinaida Volkonskaya in 1820s Moscow.
The subject of men’s body hair in art and media is also examined. Why, the exhibition asks, have so many of history’s most famous depictions of men — such as Michelangelo’s “David ...
Salons were started under Louis XIV and continued from 1667 to 1704. After a hiatus, the salons started up again in 1725. After a hiatus, the salons started up again in 1725. Under Louis XV , the most prestigious Salon took place in Paris (the Salon de Paris ) in the Salon Carré of the Louvre , but there were also salons in the cities of ...
The Salon's original focus was the display of the work of recent graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts, which was created by Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, in 1648. Exhibition at the Salon de Paris was essential for any artist to achieve success in France for at least the next 200 years.
In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 is an 1812 oil painting by the French artist Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier. [1] It depicts the salon of Marie Thérèse Geoffrin in Paris at the middle of the eighteenth century. A conversation piece it depicts many figures from the Age of Enlightenment. [2]
The Database of Salon Artists is a resource listing every submission to the Paris Salon between 1827 and 1850, using information derived from the original Salon registers now held in the Archives des Musées Nationaux, part of the Service des Bibliothèques, des Archives et de la Documentation Générale des Musées de France.